Packers Morning Buzz: Peter King on 'big year' for Aaron Rodgers

Welcome to your Morning Buzz, rounding up news and views regarding the Green Bay Packers from around the web and here at PackersNews.com.

We'll start with the esteemed Peter King of NBC Sports ranking the NFL teams from 1 to 32 for the offseason and placing the Packers in the No. 14 slot. Here's his reasoning:

14. GREEN BAY PACKERS (6-9-1)

I can only imagine what Aaron Rodgers feels like sitting there at the Bucks playoff games when he’s not thinking, Fear the Deer, baby. He has to be thinking how absurd it is that, since mid-2015, he’s won exactly half of his starts—27 of 54, over nearly a four-year period. He has to be thinking how, at 35, he’s reaching the home stretch of his career, and he doesn’t want to go out with one Super Bowl win and just one Super Bowl appearance. And he has to be thinking all eyes around the league will be on him as he tries to team with a new coach, Matt LaFleur, to rekindle the hopes of a great franchise gone mediocre. In a personnel sense, the Packers didn’t help Rodgers and LaFleur much this offseason, adding no marquee free-agents and just a second-round center (Elgton Jenkins) and third-round tight end (Jace Sternberger) and no receiver help. So the weight continues to be on Rodgers as he adjusts to a new coach and new system, in a division with at least two teams that have passed the Packers. Big year for the quarterback.

You can read King's entire column here:

In today's FMIA column at @NBCSports: 📈 My rankings, 1-32, as summer nears. 3⃣ A surprise team at this spot. Hint:🐴7⃣ Huge surprise here, a 4-12 team in '18🐻 The definition of a good deed🤠 Do the right Dak thing, Dallas🤷🏽‍♂️ A Hard Knock guess➡️ https://t.co/lthIpYSUYgpic.twitter.com/YXohgW2iae

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Jason Hirschhorn writes for Acme Packing Co. about how Rodgers' presence should mitigate any dysfunction arising from the Packers' revamped power structure:

The Packers’ new power structure installed by Mark Murphy has reportedly caused issues already. But as our @by_JBH explains, organizational dysfunction appears unlikely to unravel the franchise so long as Aaron Rodgers remains in place. https://t.co/8xby2pnIE5